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328 p, It consists of the history of Brazil, the war that Brazil gains its independence from the imperial government was known as the War of Farrapos, (A Guerra dos Farrapos). This war and conflict was from 1835 through 1845.;
Porto Alegre RS: Escola Superior de Teologia São Lourenço de Brindes Sulina Editora
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175 p., It consists of the history of Brazil, the war that Brazil gains its independence from the imperial government was known as the War of Farrapos, (A Guerra dos Farrapos). This war and conflict was from 1835 through 1845.
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310 p., "The idea baianidade is very much a model, a source of inspiration, the translation of concrete reality. All cultural identities are just that: ideas. ...They unite people, facilitate dialogue, summarize important, beautiful values. As can also serve to alienate us from other people, to justify to ourselves, our faults and mistakes." --The Author, "Agnes Mariano e a "Invenção da Baianidade" (www.passieweb.com).
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The pioneering collector of African American music writes of a trip to West Africa where he found the cultural and historical roots for musical expression from Brazil to Cuba, to Trinidad, to New Orleans, to the Bahamas, to dance halls of west Louisiana and the great churches of Harlem. He recounts experiences from a half-century spent following, documenting, recording, and writing about the Africa-influenced music of the United States, Brazil, and the Caribbean.
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141 p, Reprints an 1830s text that was central to the transatlantic campaign to fully abolish slavery in Britain’s colonies. James Williams, an eighteen-year-old Jamaican “apprentice” (former slave), came to Britain in 1837 at the instigation of the abolitionist Joseph Sturge. The Narrative he produced there, one of very few autobiographical texts by Caribbean slaves or former slaves, became one of the most powerful abolitionist tools for effecting the immediate end to the system of apprenticeship that had replaced slavery